The Mirror revealed how Bellifield, who murdered 13-year-old Milly Dowler, won the compensation from the Ministry of Justice after he was attacked in prison

Court documents reveal the bill will rise to almost £10,000 due to a £5,000 fee that must be paid to the monster’s legal team.

The Mirror exclusively revealed how Bellfield , who murdered 13-year-old Milly Dowler, won the compensation from the Ministry of Justice after he was attacked in prison.

He will also receive £171 in interest as the payout has been back-dated to 2009, when he was assaulted by a fellow inmate at HMP Wakefield, in West Yorks.

Robert Oxley, of the TaxPayers’ Alliance, said: “Levi Bellfield is meant to be in prison as a punishment for his horrific crimes, not using his sentence as an opportunity to get rich.”

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Killed: Milly Dowler

Senior Labour MP Michael McCann said: “It’s decisions like this, made by people who are detached from reality, which make a mockery of justice in the UK.”

Bellfield, 45, had complained the jail was negligent and owed him a, “duty of care to keep him safe from such an attack”.

A source close to the case said: “He views himself as a ‘celebrity prisoner’ and feels this gives him the right to a higher level of protection.”

Legal experts said the £5,000 awarded to solicitors Carter Moore is an interim payment and could rise by thousands of pounds.

Bellfield, who won his case at Durham county court this week, has been locked up since 2008, when he was found guilty of murdering Amelie Delagrange, 22, and Marsha McDonnell, 19, as well as the attempted murder of Kate Sheedy, then 18.

Bellfield, who is now being held at HMP Frankland in Durham, was found guilty in 2011 of murdering Milly in 2002.